At the core of the manifold paradoxes swirling around American governance is the harsh reality that we just can’t keep running our (stuff) the way it has evolved to run. Neither candidate for president is honest enough to spell this out and indeed both act as though easy work-arounds exist for sustaining the unsustainable. – (James Howard Kunstler) Mr. Kuntsler’s description of the two candidates | Read More »
Anyone who is not in power in American politics fears the potential havoc that could be wrecked by an Imperial Presidency. Simply by declaring “I am the decider,” George W. Bush put the fear of Dog Almighty into the Godless left. “I won.” Had a similarly galvanizing effect on Conservative opposition to Barack Obama in the United States. While logical people, both Right and Left, | Read More »
“Whither is God,” he cried. “I shall tell you. We have killed him – you and I. All of us are murderers…. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him…” Nietsche, The Gay Science, section 126, 1882 Economist and Washington Post editorialist Robert Samuelson pointed out the obvious in his condign criticism of Barack Obama’s State of The Obama Address. We, our | Read More »
So Barack Obama promises the Moon. He also tells us we don’t even need to pay for the rocket. His budget goes far beyond even the most positive year of tax revenues in recent history. He can’t even execute said budget without a 17% cost overrun.
This leaves him short a projected $1.2Tr. in Federal Revenues next year if the stupidity continues. The stupidity will continue until moral improves. The Taxman cometh. If you feel a couple of pounds lighter next year, that’s your wallet, not a successful combination of exercise and diet.
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